Timeshare Rentals

Have you thought about what is driving travel costs higher and higher?

Let’s see, there’s the increase in fuel prices that you feel every time you pump gas, buy an airline ticket, or board a bus. There’s also the way this increase gets passed on to you in the rising cost of food, durable goods, and other products that are likewise feeling the increase in transportation and delivery costs.

But in the midst of what seems to be a very shaky economy, business travel is booming. As reported previously in the Timeshare Owners Blog, the Global Business Travel Report, released in October by American Express Travel, show that the demand for business travel has increased in 2007 and will continue in rise in 2008. This increase will drive the cost of everything from airline tickets to car rentals to hotels rooms even higher—in some cases, as much as 14 percent.

Yesterday, Sell My Timeshare NOW issued a news release addressing these mounting increases, and explaining that the rising cost of travel, particularly hotel accommodations, is one of several reasons timeshare sales, timeshare resales, and timeshare rentals continue to grow. You cannot do much to fight back against the rising cost of airline tickets or even meals you eat in restaurants, but you really can create your own personal hedge against inflation when you buy timeshare or buy timeshare resales.

Why It Makes So Much Sense to Buy Timeshare or Rent Timeshare

Buy timeshare and you lock in today’s price for lodging for as long as you own the timeshare. You can use your timeshare interval, exchange it for other dates and locations, or even use it as a timeshare rental when you don’t need it yourself. Businesses can use a timeshare condo for business travel, as a reward for key employees, or as a perk they share with favorite clients. In fact, the numbers of ways that people use and enjoy timeshare are varied and creative.

Fight back. Timeshare resale and timeshare rental are a cost effective way for you to travel during the upcoming holidays, for your next family vacation and weekend getaway, or any time you travel for business. Before you even think about booking a hotel room, you owe it to yourself and your wallet to visit Sell My Timeshare NOW and take a serious look at all the opportunities available in timeshare rental.

Have you heard that Nicholas Cage and Will Smith are making a movie about a timeshare resort, titled, (what else?) “Time Share“? I hadn’t heard about it either. But then I was not familiar with a movie by the same name that came out in 2000, until I started looking for more on the new version scheduled to be released next year.

The first movie was a made for TV love story starring Nastassja Kinski and Timothy Dalton and is described as a romantic comedy in which two single parents and their children must share a timeshare rental during their vacation.

Basically the plot for the Cage-Smith version of Time Share is the same, except the stars are married men who, along with their families, find themselves scheduled for the same week, in the same timeshare rental during what was supposed to be for each family, their dream vacation. And of course, in this comedic version of Time Share, the two stars do not fall in love and live happily ever after.

Early reports are that this script is quite funny and that both Nicolas Cage and Will Smith were eager to do a movie together. Besides starring in the film, Cage and Smith are producing it along with a few other well-known Hollywood film backers.

According to IMDb, which I think is the go-to standard for movie information for most people these days, as of last summer, the movie was categorized as being ‘in production’. This means that the details, including the timeline for release, are subject to change.

And while I assume that in the real world, the chances of two people being scheduled into the same timeshare unit at the same time are highly unlikely, I suppose anything is possible. For this to happen, anywhere but in the movies, you would need a major booking snafu, a timeshare resort at 100 percent occupancy, and no option for the overbooked timeshare resort to relocate one of the guests to a nearby resort.

So has this ever really happened to anyone? Have you ever arrived at a timeshare resort, only to find it already occupied? The Timeshare Owners Blog would love to hear your story…

Here is a very funny Japanese commercial featuring Nicholas Cage, which you may not have seen on American TV.

And of course, the trailer to Will Smith’s newest movie, I Am Legend.

Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell signed a new bill into law this week dealing with timeshare real estate sales presentations. Senate Bill 886 amends the Real Estate Licensing and Registration Act and requires that if someone must attend a presentation in order to obtain a prize, then he or she must also be provided a written or electronic disclosure at least once before attending that timeshare sales presentation. Verbal disclosures do not qualify as providing the consumer adequate notice about the terms of the timeshare deal.

According to the State of Pennsylvania’s official press release, “While it is common for the timeshare industry to require that a person attend a sales presentation prior to receiving a prize or gift (like a free night’s stay at the timeshare, golf clubs or a DVD player), attendees are not always aware that they must attend a sales presentation as a condition of receiving the prize/gift.”

The new bill defines that the timeshare real estate deal disclosure must be communicated in a “clear, coherent, and conspicuous manner”. In other words, no more fine print, causing the average person to overlook or fail to understand that what seems to be offered as a free gift, actually requires his or her attendance at a timeshare sales pitch first.

Good step Governor Rendell! You know what they say about the odds in life of actually getting something for nothing.

And to skip the timeshare sales presentation entirely and deal directly with the individual who has timeshare for sale, shop the excellent inventory of timeshare resales and timeshare rental at Sell My Timeshare NOW.

The TimesLeader.com reported last week about some Luzerne County, Pennsylvania officials who were questioned when the word “timeshare” appeared on their government-issued debit card statements.

No, the officials explained, they were not taking timeshare resort holidays. Instead, they were simply spending the taxpayers’ dollars carefully by staying at the Manhattan Club timeshare when they were in New York City on official business.

The timeshare rental, according to the article, appeared as a charge of $208.44 per night (a government rate) and was deemed more affordable than other hotels in the area. According to the officials involved, the trips to New York City included meetings with New York City police personnel in order to learn improved crime-fighting techniques centering around a police records management system that Luzerne County is currently implementing.

The Manhattan Club timeshare was recommended to the Pennsylvania government officials because it offers affordable accommodations in New York City. The article also went on to point out that, some business travel of the county’s officials was paid for through money confiscated in criminal investigations and arrests.

Timeshare rental can be an incredibly affordable travel lodging solution, and it doesn’t matter if you are trying to save tax payer dollars or your own. To learn more about timeshare resale and timeshare rental, visit Sell My Timeshare NOW. In a tight-dollar economy, timeshares make more sense than ever.

Here’s an interesting YouTube video, as unicyclists take to the city streets of Manhattan. Be sure you watch it all the way to the end when you will see a bold (and dangerous) way to travel the Long Island Expressway.